Tilt the board toward yourself; an easel is preferable, though drawing in your lap can work just as well, if you can keep your eyes further from the paper. Anything that'll keep your back straight.

See I usually sit with my legs towards my chest and put my sketchpad there, but it still hurts my back. I have a $600 drawing table thats supposed to go up at an angle that helps with posture, but since I had a moron put it together it doesn't do that, and it actually makes my posture worse due to having to hunch over so bad. *sighs* I also have to keep my head kind of close to my paper, cos I need glasses. :C

Yeaaaah, sounds about like me. The leg thing curves the bottom of your back badly. Try putting a pillow or two under your pad.

Thats a good idea I'll defiantly try that, thanks <3

definitely* darn you spell check

I have scoliosis myself so I try anything I can to make the pain stop. But I've had it almost all my life so I am used to most of the pain now.

The best thing I've come across for it is just lying flat on the floor for a bit to ease it, then a warm pad with 800mg of ibuprofen. But yeah all of it makes me tired, so I dunno, take 5 hour energy with it? XDD
What the_mike said about an easel does help as well. Keeps you from hunching over.

If you come up with a simpler way I'd love you forever if you shared XD

No usually just lots of sleep helps me, but I hate napping all day and being useless :c
I've gotten my boyfriend to help by him wrapping his legs around my thighs and his hands around my ribs and doing a wrestling move that stretches my back out. However I don't think this will help anyone, it's usually a swing and a miss with me.

Depends on where your back is actually hurting.
I've had very bad problems with my lower back and siatic nerve, so I do stretches to relieve that and strengthen it. Which I can link you to a site that has a bunch if that's where the problems are.
Mostly you can do yoga stretches and stuff, they help a lot :3

yeah my pains always in my mid to lower back.
I wish I knew yoga it'd prolly help alot ^^

http://www.spine-health.com/wellnes.....ormis-syndrome

Here's a BUNCH of stretches you can do :3

They have some yoga books out there too I'm pretty sure there's some basic poses online somewhere

I've got bad kidneys, so I know what that lower back pain feels like. Every time my mid/lower back is pushed against something for a long period of time, like when I'm driving to my parents' house or when I go to a movie, the pain is almost too much to bare. I also can't sleep on my back for too long or the pain will start up.

When I draw, I lay in bed with 2 or 3 pillows propping me up so I'm sitting up at an angle but my back is straight and cushioned. Same when I play video games.

As for remedying that pain, I always have someone rub my back; or if no one's around to do it I find a support beam or something similar, and push my back against it 'til the pain goes away. I haven't taken medication for it because I don't know what would specifically target kidney pain.

I also read in a now-lost Wiccan healing book that I had, that if you push your back against an Ash tree, and visualize the pain being soaked up by the bark, it'll help relieve back pain. I used to have an Ash tree in my back yard, so I'd always go to that when I had a problem, before my kidneys started hurting.